It may not clean the drive, but the library updated the usage counter for the tape evry time we loaded it.
Tom -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stef Coene Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: LTO Media On Monday 29 November 2004 22:25, Kauffman, Tom wrote: > My original LTO-1 library went back to the leasing company after three > years of use, averaging about 2 TB of data per DAY across 10 drives. In > that time period, we clocked 11 uses of one cleaning tape. All eleven > were manually triggered from the operator panel (move tape from slot to > drive) to check out tape drives after repair/replace in the first two > months (before we got the proper microcode installed on the drives). > > In other words -- 3 years, 2 TB/day * 365 days *3 -- and the drives > never indicated they needed to be cleaned. And no I/O errors relating to > cleaning being required. I thought that you can not clean a lto drive if it isn't needed. You can put the cleaning tape in, but it will not clean the drive. Each cleaning tape also has a counter so you can only use it a few times (most tapes can be used 50 times). Stef -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Using Linux as bandwidth manager" http://www.docum.org/